“Global” [ft. iLoveMakonnen]

Lil B might have been somewhere in the vicinity of a sweaty, packed, raucous night club once, but his music almost never aims to penetrate the walls of such a space. It was there for you on your dazed, musing walk home, or it was waiting for your on 11 open tabs on your laptop when you were in bed later. Makonnen, meanwhile, introduced himself to us in the club, but it was a goddamn Tuesday. Neither of these artists wanted or expected to soundtrack a stereotypical spring-break-style bacchanal.

Except that now they have: On “Global,” Makonnen and Lil B have joined together to make perhaps the most unlikely club banger of their careers. Lil B knows it too: “All my frat boys turn up/Spring break, bitches wanna fuck” he says dryly. The synth roiling beneath him is vicious, skull-rattling, fierce; there has never been more low-end on a Lil B song before, ever, rendered this cleanly and mixed so optimally to pound from huge speaker cones. “Get down in this pretty world and do your pretty dance,” Makonnen demands, while B shouts out girls in Sri Lanka and Brazil. “I feel like Jay Z, I feel like Master P,” he chants. He sounds like them now, too.